TSA Admits In Leaked Doc: No Evidence of Terrorist Plots Against Aviation in US

Re:TSA Admits In Leaked Doc: No Evidence of Terrorist Plots ... by svachalek on Thursday October 17, 2013 @11:15PM (#6569563)

If we moved every man, woman, and child on Earth to the Moon, there's at least a 40% chance they would survive a catastrophic meteor strike to the Earth.

That doesn't make it a good idea.

There's always a cost and in this case (TSA or moving to the Moon) it's a ridiculously high one to pay for marginal protection against an unlikely event.

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Re:TSA Admits In Leaked Doc: No Evidence of Terrorist Plots ... by yeukhon on Friday October 18, 2013 @04:43AM (#6570381)

So, in the case of TSA, convenience outweigh than 1% of safety because of 40% of increase in both convenience and pleasant experience.

The conclusion that an attack is unlikely to happen is based on what? Can we do a fair experiment to show what would the probability be like if we never implemented this TSA inspection vs after implementing this TSA inspection?

Should we conduct such experiment and watch an alert (or wait until another plan gets hijacked)?

Okay. I need a new solution. What is the solution? I don't need a "we will die let's move on solution" because this is not a solution. If this is were a solution, we don't need law enforcement.

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